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Tag: red supergiant

Astronomers witness giant star explode into a supernova for the first time

January 11, 2022

We're learning new things about the most powerful explosions in the universe.

These images, taken with the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, show the surface of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse during its unprecedented dimming, which happened in late 2019 and early 2020. The image on the far left, taken in January 2019, shows the star at its normal brightness, while the remaining images, from December 2019, January 2020 and March 2020, were all taken when the star’s brightness had noticeably dropped, especially in its southern region. The brightness returned to normal in April 2020. (ESO/M. Montargès et al)

Astronomers Solve the Mystery of Betelgeuse’s ‘Great Dimming’

Astronomers are no longer in the dark about the dimming of Betegeuse.

The first Thorne-Zytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star, discovered by astronomers

June 5, 2014 - Updated on September 13, 2016

Physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna Zytkow proposed a new theoretical class of stars back in 1975, but it was ...

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